Kind­ly al­low me to share some thoughts through the Guardian of democ­ra­cy as we ap­proach yet an­oth­er Gen­er­al elec­tion we are be­ing asked to sup­port two main po­lit­i­cal par­ties in an ex­treme­ly charged po­lit­i­cal cli­mate where our lead­ers are head­ing to­wards a di­vi­sive ap­proach to ap­peal to their re­spec­tive sup­port­ers. This is not tak­ing us any­where and cor­rec­tive ac­tion is need­ed, if we are to build a na­tion.

I have read re­cent­ly where Dr Win­ford James out­lined the chal­lenges of the var­i­ous eth­nic­i­ties and their nat­ur­al ten­den­cies to as­so­ciate and sup­port peo­ple of a sim­i­lar ap­pear­ance and back­ground in our ap­proach to vot­ing . Whilst he ac­knowl­edged that re­al­i­ty, he of­fered no so­lu­tion as to how we can over­come such dif­fi­cul­ties in try­ing to build that rain­bow na­tion where all races and creed can en­joy the com­forts of a har­mo­nious re­la­tion­ship re­gard­less of et­nic­i­ties.

In the late six­ties and ear­ly sev­en­ties, race did not mat­ter, we went out for lunch­es etc on a Sat­ur­day af­ter half day’s work for a sump­tu­ous meal ,drinks etc for the rest of the af­ter­noon and the ca­ma­raderie we shared then re­mains ,even to­day.When and how did that change?

I main­tain it has to come from poor lead­er­ship over the years and the di­vide and rule phe­nom­i­na which we are wit­ness­ing to­day.

Kam­la called Dr Row­ley an “oreo’cook­ie so he has to re­spond in like man­ner.

How can we build to­geth­er when one group dis­trusts the oth­er, es­pe­cial­ly with the coun­try’s re­sources which be­long to all of us. We all came here un­der sim­i­lar cir­cum­stances some feared bet­ter than oth­ers for what­ev­er the rea­son, but all had sim­i­lar op­por­tu­ni­ties, free ter­tiary ed­u­ca­tion,fi­nan­cial re­sources bet­ter stan­dards of liv­ing through hard work, but the will to get ahead for some was lack­ing, and they paid a price for it.

But with good lead­er­ship, a gen­uine ef­fort could have been made to har­ness these idle hu­man re­sources to a more pro­duc­tive con­tri­bu­tion to en­hance our en­vi­ron­ment or im­prove our food se­cu­ri­ty.

I am of the opin­ion that our ex­am­plars like Mr James,Mr Kam­bon ,Mr Cud­joe and oth­er can pull our peo­ples to­geth­er for na­tion build­ing and de­vel­op­ment of hu­man cap­i­tal, so that we may all ben­e­fit.

Sathya Per­sad

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